[conradev]

One of the reasons OrbStack is so great is because they implement their own hypervisor: https://orbstack.dev/

Apple’s stack gives you low-level access to ARM virtualization, and from there Apple has high-level convenience frameworks on top. OrbStack implements all of the high-level code themselves.

[leoh]

How does it compare to apple’s hv?

[conradev]

Better filesystem support (https://orbstack.dev/blog/fast-filesystem) and memory utilization (https://orbstack.dev/blog/dynamic-memory)